Eleanor Roosevelt

(70 votes)   Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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(57 votes)   It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

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(54 votes)   You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

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(396 votes)   You always admire what you really don't understand.

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(152 votes)   A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.

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(141 votes)   day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.

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(138 votes)   Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

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1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(130 votes)   Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

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1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(107 votes)   Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(105 votes)   We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

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(97 votes)   All of life is a constant education.

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(93 votes)   You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(78 votes)   The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

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1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(67 votes)   A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

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1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(58 votes)   I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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